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TROOPS READY FOR STRIKE ZERO HOUR 'Operation Railroad' Set to Back Pledge Of the President STAY HOME 225,000 Commuters Call It a Weekend L. I. Runs 8 Trains AN EDITORIAL Mr. Truman and the Strike President Truman's approach to the railroad crisis In his address to the nation last night was forcible and forthright. In spite of the fact that the engineers and trainmen have a strong case particularly as to working conditions the great weakness of their position now is that their strike is actually against the Government people of the nation.

The chief emphasis of Mr. Truman's address was on that point, and rightly so. Our whole economy is threatened by the railroad tleup. We hope the strikers will have the common sense to yield to the President's plea to return to work. If they defy him he will be fully Justified in using any necessary means to run the trains, including troops.

As we have said many times, a way must be found to make impossible the senseless and costly strikes on public utilities. BULLETIN New York City's estimated 527,000 commuters, who got a bitter taste Washington, May 25 (U.R) The armed forces mobilized today for a 5 p.m. zero hour in "Operation Washington, May 25 (U.R) Chiefs of the two striking railroad unions today met with their wage committees in of traffic Jams and over-loaded buses and subway trains during the Railroad." first 24 hours of the railroad tleup, apparently figured it wasn't worth emergency session to study a compromise plan that might end the rail strike before the 5 p.m. zero hour set for army operation of the nation's crippled rail system. Troops were on the move.

Others all the trouble today and nearly half were put In readiness. Their mis of them decided to call it a weekend. sion was to fulfill President Tru A New York Board of Trade sur Washington, May 25 (U.R)-Rail strike leaders will submit man's pledge that the army will operate as many trains as possible to President Truman today a compromise offer to call off the if sufficient regular engineers and vey late yesterday indicated that about 100,000 persons didn't even try to come to work, and in some sections of the city it was obvious. Today even more stayed at home, the estimate going as high as trainmen do not get back to work chaotic train tieup before the 5 p.m. deadline set for emergency army operation of idled trains.

This was disclosed by Senator Claude Pepper after a dramatic pre-dawn conference with trainmen president A. F. Whitnev. by 5 p.m. (Eastern Daylight Time).

The President said the armed 225.000. forces also would protect strike- Suburban bus lines put on extra defying civilians as well as help in buses, as they did yesterday morn He said the plan, presumably in actual operations. ing, but the crush wasn't nearly so Authoritative sources said that even bad. Most passengers louna seats. dorsed by engineers' president Al-vanley Johnston, would offer to Additional subway trains also were all-out army efforts to operate the roads probably could not get many running to outlying terminals, but as late as 7 a.m.

many of them had ''Scare Buying' Brings Food Crisis Nearer Pinchjil Perishables to Be Felt by Monday-Truckers Promise Relief Milk Is Assured bring striking trainmen and engineers back to work under a Government-union contract. or tne trains running lor several days. vacant seats. Yesterday they were carrying Preparations Secret It would be effective during Gov standees as early as 5 ajn. ernment operation of the railroads Lonar Islanders had the first real while a permanent union-manage break as the Long Island Railroad ment settlement is worked out resumed Its shuttle service on electrified lines at 6 a.m.

The service BROADCASTS WARNING President Truman ot microphone in the White House bluntly warned striking railroad men that the Government will operate the lines with armed troops unless they return to work by 5 p.m. today. through further negotiation on ar Housewives "scare buying" Intensified today the threat The army, for reasons best known to itself, cloaked its preparations with almost as much secrecy as if it were getting ready for a wartime invasion. In fact, it would hardly admit anything. But Mr.

Truman told the objective In his speech to the nation last night. Re said that if the strike per was maintained all day yesterday, bitration. Hands Out Stern Ultimatum halting at 7:30 p.m., and more than 25.000 Daeaengers were of food shortages throughout the nation as millions worried about their eating prospects. 4 in New York City the food outlook as a reault-of the EFFECTS OF STRIKE Washington, May 25 (U.R) President Truman in his radio address last night listed these effects of the railroad strike: 1. Lack of fuel, raw materials and shipping is closing hundreds of Millions of workers will be thrown ont of their Jobs.

2. Farmers can not move food to market. 3. The housing program Is suffering a severe setback. 4.

Utilities most begin conserve ration of fnel immediately. 5. Returning veterans will not be able to get home. g. Inflationary pressures will Increase, 7.

Thousands of people In this country and abroad will starve. 8. Americans' health and safety will be endangered, their streets darkened. The peace offer was drawn up of them in pcie afternoon ndt; after Mr. Truman, In a fighting- nlKht, wnen worn oi ins, service nil strike indicated a complete lack mad radio address, laid down a ANGRY spread.

CONGRESS of red meat within several days and stern ultimatum to Whitney and Service from Jamaica sisted at 5 p.m., he would order the army to assist the Office of Defense Transportation in operating the trains and would direct the armed forces to furnish protection to every striker "who heeds the call of his country In this time scarcities In many staples. Milk will The road, by operating 10-car Johnston to end their "strike against the Government' under trains between the Jamaica BACKS PRESIDENT pain of drastic Government ac tion to avert starvation and industrial collapse. nal and Babylon, Hempstead, Far Rockaway and Long Beach and between Port Washington and Flushing, rolled up the best record for of need." Marine and naval personnel with Mr. Truman said that unless the SLOT-MACHINE SEIZURE BLOCKS CITY 'INVASION' 200 Ready to Follow If First One Got Through, Say Cops railroad experience also were mo Prompt O. K.

Seen Assured if He Asks Penalties at Today's Joint Session service in the city. The trains were strike is ended by 5 p.m. today the army will move in and run as many run by qualified supervisory em bilized for the emergency. Gen. Dwight D.

Elsenhower, trains as possible. He also im be the only Item moving Into the city during the transportation paralysis. The American Trucking Association said, however, that no one throughout the country was in danger of going hungry. Reporting plenty of trucks to transport foodstuffs, they said half the nation's food supply Is normally delivered" by truck. City officials declared that the ployes who once had operated Washington, May 25 (U.R) Congress today expected trains.

plied strongly that he would ask Congress for legislative curbs against labor. Army Chief of Staff, cut short his Georgia vacation and returned to Washington to oversee "Operation President Truman to request penalties for strikes against Today's service, a road spokesman said, was expected to be better than the Government. Prompt Congressional approval was a Railroad." The President goes before a Joint session of Congress at 5 p.m. (East rectlng Federal seizure of the coal mines. That order specifically au-.

thorized Secretary of Interior J. A. strong possibility. Convoys of troops were already on the move as the President made ine rresiaeni scneauiea nis appearance Before an ern Daylight Time) lor what the White House described as "one of With the spearhead of one lone Krug to negotiate an Interim Gov- his dramatic announcement in a extraordinary joint session ot Congress for 5 p.m. the the most tremendously important I ernment-union contract with the slot machine quickly confiscated In pinch In perishables will begin to the erratic operation yesterday.

A definite schedule for hourly or even more frequent service was outlined, with at least the same eight trains in operation yesterday shuttling back and forth today. Yesterday trains ran whenever they had enough passengers, making In all 114 round trips. radio address last night. They were being shifted to strategic points of the country. deadline set in his radio appeal last night for striking railroad workers L.

a4ijkii speeches of his career." United Mine Workers (A. F. Reliable Congressional sources Congress, in a fighting mood, was Brooklyn, police served notice today that New York still definitely has be felt by Monday, but tne menu will be relieved to some extent by produce trucked into the city from to return voluntarily to the Govern' Everywhere the orders were the said he was ready to ask for a law i geared to ram through possibly making it a criminal offense to before the night is over any legis- same: Prevent violence to railroad ment-seized rail system. Today's the "heat on" against any Invasion by a Chicago gambling syndicate. as far south as Florida.

City Faces Potato Famine strike against the Government. men who defy their own unions' Even the Long Island's herculean speech will be broadcast by all major Senator Pepper, leader of a pro- strike orders and, wherever possi The machine, seized In a raid at networks. i Markets Commissioner Eugene labor blocks in the Senate, said efforts to keep some semblance of service represented only a drop In ble, help operate the trains. 660 Broadway yesterday afternoon. inrormed Congfessional sources Whitney would submit his plan to Schulz reported the stock of fruits The first Indication of the Gov lis the first shiny, new "one-armed the commuter bucket.

Normally, expected Mr. Truman to ask for Mr. Truman in a letter before noon. and vegetables on hand as normal with exceptional supplies of spin latlve labor curbs 'asked by the President. The Whitney plan was viewed as a desperate, last-ditch maneuver to forestall such a move.

Whitney and Johnston clearly were on the spot. They were put there before millions of radio listeners, by Mr. Truman, with cold anger, he blamed them alone for a rail strike that "can comnletely He said he "gained the impression ernment Intention to man the trains came yesterday In a series of public announcements by the Continued on Page 2 UKAilllflUIUH EXPECTED IF MINERS QUIT New Strike Threat Against U. S. Looms as Two-Weeks Truce Ends Washington, May 25 (U.R) Presi that Vhitney and Johnston are legislation making it a criminal offense to strike against the Government meaning Government-seized properties such as the railroads and ach and wax and green beans.

bandit" to appear in the city in about eight years, according to Deputy Chief -Inspector Frank Pris-tensky Jr In charge of Police Commissioner Wallander's confidential workinsr together" In this peace plan. soft coal mines. 2-Alarm Fire Destroys Maspeth Monument Shop Senator Pepper went to Whitney The potato situation is acute. He aid the meat supply would virtually disappear in several days, although a heavy supply of dressed and live poultry is on hand. The egg supply squad that is pressing the anti- Senate Democratic Leader Alben W.

Navy and Marine Corps. The navy ordered all commanding officers In the country to report by today the names of all personnel with railroad experience. The navy and the marines said they would order to active dutv anv re stifle our economy and ultimately gambling crusade. "The syndicate thought the "heat' Fire late last night destroyed a hotel room at midnight, two hours after the President's two-fisted broadcast to the nation. With Barkley, asked both houses of Congress "keep themselves in position to promptly consider the President's recommendations, whatever they was termed more than sufficient; was off," he said, "and shot along this one machine as a test' We two-story building housing a shop and boiler room of the Adler Monument Sc Granite Works at 59-62 Whitney, Senator Pepper sought to destroy our country." Seldom if ever has a President delivered such Continued en Page canned and dehydrated foods work out a plan to end the strike "good," and frozen food stocks, dent Truman today confronted the threat of another "strike against the and head off restrictive, labor serve officer whose services would be valuable during the strike.

From the army, about the onlv Continued on Page 3 M'falr." 54th Maspeth. Two alarms were sounded and may be." Expected to Rush Legislation Government" by 400,000 soft coal word was Secretary of War Robert FEW STRIKERS HEED The Pennsylvania Railroad said it would bring in five freight trains dally with food supplies for New huge sheets of flame and billowing clouds of smoke attracted several It was considered likely, in view miners at midnight tonight. f. Patterson's comment that it was Plane Hitching Soldiers Ride With Eisenhower APPEAL OF TRUMAN possible" that trained army per York and a sixth for other essential sonnel would be used to man the freight. Savannah, May 25 (U.R) Two trains.

Government marketing experts hundred onlookers to the scene. Air Ferries to Aid Eastern L. I. Commuters Eastern Long Island commuters, And from the President's warning that he would use troops, if necessary, to break the railroad strike, the miners could expect drastic Government action to keep the mines Negro soldiers stranded here by the rail strike yesterday decided to try reported that most cities had suf Wonders About Acceptability "I wanted to discover," Senator Pepper explained, "whether some way could not be worked out to avoid twin dangers of a breakdown In the nation's transportation or the necessity of coercing free American labor into unwilling work." He admitted he did not know whether the peace plan would be acceptable to Mr. Truman.

But he felt "the Government must exhaust ficient canned and packaged foods to last from 10 to 14 days. They of the extreme emergency created by the nationwide rail tieup, that Congressional leaders would try to rush passage of whatever the President wants. They probably will seek unanimous consent to skip the customary parliamentary delays. The chances of a speed-up program were enhanced by Congressional reaction to Mr. Truman's fighting speech last night and a widespread feeling that the rail tle to hitch an airplane ride at Savan nah's Hunter Army Air Field.

deprived of rail service and lacking (aid millions would have to make All railroads serving the city reported this morning that there was little or no response to President Truman's appeal to strikers to return to work. The Long Island, which provided by far the best service all day yesterday, had only the eight shuttle trains it ran all day yesterday on the program for today and a spokesman said there ap At the field Corp. Troy Felder and operating. Stoppage to Aggravate Crisis drastic changes in their diests for Pvt. Leon Lee, both of Philadelphia 35 Canadian Ships Tied Up by Strike Toronto.

May 25 (U.R) Seven hun bus facilities, were given new travel facilities today when Island Air and both overseas veterans, were in' the strike's duration, doing without fresh meat, fruits and vegetables. Barring unforeseen action by John Ferries opened Its scheduled service formed that one plane was about to L. Lewis, unpredictable president of leave for Washington and there was every possible means of a voluntary between LaGuardla Field and East Hamnton, with stops at Sayville in up in the face of Federal seizure the United Mine Workers (A. F. L) room aboard it both directions.

Five rouna trip dred Canadian seamen struck early Only after they had climbed settlement before it resorts either to coercion or armed force." Mr. Truman's railroad seizure challenges the Government's a formal work stoppage appeared inevitable in the Government-oper peared to be no Indication that striking engineers and trainmen toauy against me Canada steamship Lines and a strike committee 1,025 GIs to Arrive Today one transport is due to arrive in New York Harbor today. It's the V. 8. 8.

R. Victory, from Le Havre, with 1,025 troops. flights are scheduled daily. It Will Be Warm, Rainy Democrats and Republicans in aboard did the goggle-eyed GIs learn they were riding with Army Chief of Staff Gen. Dwight D.

order of May 17 makes no provision were coming to work. of the Canadian Seamen's Union ated bituminous mines at midnight for Government-union negotiation both houses of Congress hailed the President's speech. Senator Scott met to decide whether the strike when the current two-week work Eisenhower. Over the Weekend of an interim contract to cover ss: rU rU. working conditions during the V.riOO-V.nOO$ rind of Government orjeration of: Portland, May 25 (U.R) would be extended to other lines.

The strike was ordered for sea w. wicaa lu, iu.) predicted tnatj truce expires. A coal strike would "Congress Will back him to the national crlnis paiiseH The weather card shows a warm, the lines. Borneo Nick, "King" of Portland rainy weekend. Highest tempera limit, oeniwr waller r.

ueorgejbv the ra lroad walkout men on 35 of the company's Great Lakes vessels after the Cltv of Mon ture today will be about 75 degrees. pledged "my active sup Mayor to Hold 'Oh Spot' Coal Administrator J. A. Krug treal sailed from Montreal with a port 100 percent." may hold last-minute conferences panhandlers, said today it had been so quiet around the trackside "Jungles" that hoboes were having trouble sleeping. Krug Authorized to Negotiate In this Important respect it differs from the executive order di- Representative John Robinson with Lewis today, but usually well dropping to 60 tonight.

Argentina Lifts Siege Buenos Aires, May 25 (U.R) The non-union crew. Union President J. A. Sullivan said it was "quite possible" that the remainder of the union's 3,500 members would be called on strike informed sources indicated there was little chance of a weekend agreement Parley on Sieve' Court Ky.) said Congress "must take such steps as are necessary to protect and save our country." Repre between the Government and the state of siege which had prevailed In Areentina since shortly after sentative Eugene E. Cox Ga.) which has been described as "an In Immediately to settle current dis State Hearing Is Held was convinced that "the country union.

Lewis Gives No Sign Pearl Harbor, was lifted by the Gov putes with shipping lines "once and Mayor OTJwyer will visit Brooklyn's "sieve" court Monday after-soon for an "on the spot" confer vitation to a Jallbreak." "Nobody knows the situation bet ernment today. and the congress are with him. Pepper's View tor au. The union said the Cltv of Mon ter than Mayor ODwyer, who pre In conferences with Krug since Mr. Truman ordered seizure of the mines Tuesday, Lewis has given no Some of the Senate's stanchest On Puinn Case Appeal ence on conditions that have made the 15-year-old Central Courts sided as a Judge In this building," Judge Lelbowltz declared.

"He treal would be tied up when it reaches the Welland Canal with 500 defenders of organized labor's right What's Your Idea? sign that he would ask the miners knows also of the miserable quar passengers aboard. to strike seemed willing to make an exception when a challenge to Albany, May 25 (U.R) State Edu to remain at work. Until the railroad strike was ters in which our District Attorney cation Commissioner George D. Stod SOLD settled, the coal dispute appeared must carry on his business in the Municipal Building. No one is more Building, Smith and Schennerhorn a public scandal.

The Mayor's decision' was riounced by County Judge Samuel S. Lelbowltz, who said the city's chief the Government Itself is involved. Senator Claude Pepper dard today reserved decision on de lean Jewish Congress and other groups from the city board's decision. Barent Ten Eyck, representing the parents association, repeated charge academic, however. Government qualified to understand the need told the Senate last night shortly BAT RIDGE 9th l-ftmllr.

rooms; caraEC sod ol) burner; pries 17.250 Windsor 8-0O0O. mands by more than a dozen New York City civic and religious groups and Industry representatives thought for a new courthouse than Mayor that the lack of railroad coal cars executive, In response to a request O'Dwyer." would force a nearly complete shut my fcagle Want Ad brought 10 or Brooklyn public school teacher ab-, then a civics teacher in Public Other members of the Board of 11 calls each night and the house nmH uh.ia.- down today of the 90 percent of the School 227, Brooklyn, wrote on the was through the ad," says Mr.tioa of charees she maintained an Industry dependent on rail service. Kings County Judges who addressed the appeal to the city authorities are Louis Goldstein, Carmine J. Mar Lobianco, 7S3 49th SU before Mr. Truman spoke: "If the President lacks the authority to keep the men at work after the Government takes over, he should tell us about it.

I think the Congress would legislate on that problem. I think the Congress would give him the necessary power." The big problem on laws to In the Interest of solidifying public sentiment on the question of how to rectify conditions in the Central Courts Building in Brooklyn, the Brooklyn Eagle will offer a prise of $25 for the best letter of not more than 150 words giving the writer's view on what may be done with the "sieve" courthouse. The letters, which should be addressed to the Courthouse Editor, must be in the Brooklyn Eagle office by next Wednesday, May 29. The winner wit be announced the following Sunday, June 2, blackboard of her classroom various "undemocratic statements" alleged to have cast reflections on the pa "un-American, undemocratic and intolerant attitude" in her civics class Woman, 81, Leapt to Death One, two and three-family houses. asco and Nathan R.

Sobel. They described the building as "offering an opportunity for the triotism of Jews. rooms. For four hours yesterday Dr. Stod' for a told him: "It's not necessary for you to come to City Hall.

I'll come over to your court Monday afternoon at 4:30 and to over the matter on the spot. Well discuss the whole situation better there." Mr. O'Dwyer's action came 24 hours after the Board of Kings County Judges called on the city to erect a new criminal courts building in place of the present structure. After scriDDiing a note saying she 'could not stand the pain any escape of dangerous criminals," and dard heasjd oral argument on the apartment buildings, business propertyany type of real estate can be sold promptly for a good price through the Want Ad eolumaa of the Eagle. Call Miss Turner.

penalize strikes against the Gov appeal of the United Parents Asso longer," police reported, Mrs. Minnie Price, 81, leaped to death today from her tenth floor apartment at 565 West End Man Asks Review of Ruling He called for a review of the city board's decision to reinstate Mlsa Qulnn, who had been suspended Conthned an Pagt declared "Facilities In this building as a whole are unsuitable for the functioning of this Important tri ernment seemed to hinge on getting ciation, the Friends of Democracy, around the constitutional guarantee the Council for Democracy, the Pub MAln 4-6200 plsee an EagU Ad- bunal." against Involuntary servitude. 1 hattan. lie Education. Association, the Amer-.